Authors:Richard A. Easterlin, David Ward, William S. Berna
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Pre
Keywords: ethnicity, dimensions, immigration
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 1980-01-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0674444396
ISBN-13: 9780674444393

The monumental Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups is the most authoritative single source available on the history, culture, and distinctive characteristics of ethnic groups in the United States. Dimensions of Ethnicity is designed to make this landmark scholarship available to everyone in a series of handy paperbound student editions. Selections in this series will include outstanding articles that illuminate the social dynamics of a pluralistic nation or masterfully summarize the experience of key groups. Written by the best-qualified scholars in each field, Dimensions of Ethni

Author: Erika Lee
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Pre
Keywords: exclusion, era, immigration, chinese, gates, america
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2003-05-19
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0807854484
ISBN-13: 9780807854488

With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in America or for the United States as a nation of immigrants. At America’s Gates is the first book devoted entirely to both Chinese immigrants and the American immigration officials who sought to keep them out. Erika Lee explores how Chinese exclusion laws not only transformed Chinese America

Authors:Leonore Loeb Adler, Uwe P. Gielen,
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Keywords: perspective, international, emigration, immigration, migration
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2003-05-30
List price: $91.95
ISBN-10: 0275976661
ISBN-13: 9780275976668

Adler and Gielen developed this volume to add the voices of a prominent international group of cross-culturally oriented psychologists to the worldwide debate on migration. Here contributors analyze worldwide configurations of migration, fundamental psychosocial factors involved in immigration and emigration, and patterns of migration from and to 16 nations and regions around the globe.

Author: George J. Borjas
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: american, economy, policy, immigration, door, heaven
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-03-26
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0691088969
ISBN-13: 9780691088969

The U.S. took in more than a million immigrants per year in the late 1990s, more than at any other time in history. For humanitarian and many other reasons, this may be good news. But as George Borjas shows in Heaven’s Door, it’s decidedly mixed news for the American economy--and positively bad news for the country’s poorest citizens. Widely regarded as the country’s leading immigration economist, Borjas presents the most comprehensive, accessible, and up-to-date account yet of the economic impact of recent immigration on America. He reveals that the benefits of immigra

Author: Herbert Adolphus Miller
Publisher: Arno Press
Keywords: collection, series, immigration, american, immigrant, school
Number of Pages: 102
Published: 1970-06
List price: $11.00
ISBN-10: 040500561X
ISBN-13: 9780405005619

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Author: Anne Renaud
Publisher: Lobster Press
Keywords: ile, canadian, immigration, grosse, story, hope, sorrow, island
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2007-05-25
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1897073542
ISBN-13: 9781897073544

From 1832 to 1937 more than four million people sailed across the Atlantic to the port of Quebec with the dream of creating better lives for themselves in the New World. During this period, a tiny island called Grosse Ile, located fifty kilometres downstream from the port, served as a quarantine station. Its mission was to prevent ship passengers from spreading diseases to the mainland. This is the story of the island, which served both as gateway and graveyard for the thousands of people who landed on its shores, and of the caring island workers who welcomed them.

Author: Vivian Louie
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: among, chinese, americans, opportunity, education, excel, immigration, compelled
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2004-08-16
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 080474985X
ISBN-13: 9780804749855

In the contemporary American imagination, Asian Americans are considered the quintessential immigrant success story, a powerful example of how the culture of immigrant families—rather than their race or class—matters in education and upward mobility. Drawing on extensive interviews with second-generation Chinese Americans attending Hunter College, a public commuter institution, and Columbia University, an elite Ivy League school, Vivian Louie challenges the idea that race and class do not matter. Though most Chinese immigrant families see higher education as a necessary safeguard against p